You have no purpose that is why it is not working for you.

Listening to tapes will not help you learn how to activate you have to do the exercises. Simply listening to a tape will not teach you how to activate you have to do the exercises.

Your story shows that you could photoread hundreds or thousands of books but if you have no purpose you will get little or nothing from a book without a purpose.

Know what your purpose is for the book, do the exercises not simply listen passively to tapes do the exercises, activate in layers i would recommend the 5 day plan mentioned in the photoreading book.

Do these things & you will have a different outcome from what you are currently experiencing.

Your current experiences show that what you are doing is not working. You definitely got feedback that your approach is not working.

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